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Pace Development Corporation has announced the successful topping off of MahaNakhon’s core at 77 floors. When it is completed, it will be the tallest building in Thailand at 314 meters. Residents will begin moving in by the end of 2015. Read more.

Shanghai-based Greenland Holding Group enters the Canadian housing market with King Blue Condominiums, which is set to break ground May 8. Sales of the twin-tower residential and hotel development have already commenced. Read more.

A local landmark is in the making with a 25-story glass tower planned to become the tallest building in Hornsby, a suburb of Sydney. A concept plan for the 80-meter glass tower awaits approval from the local council. Read more.

OMA has presented designs for what would become the largest hotel in the country. The 91-meter-tall “Nhow Hotel Rai” (or Nhow RAI) will bring 650 rooms within three stacked cubes to the Amsterdam skyline. Planning began 15 years ago. Read more.

During the most recent edition of the Chicago Latino Film Festival that took place earlier in April, the Latino Cultural Center announced its ambitious new "Ibero-American Tower." The project is still in its early planning stages. Read more.

Henning Larsen Architects has won the international design competition for a new high-rise landmark in Gothenburg, Sweden’s second-largest city. The two-tower complex will help shape the city's fast-evolving skyline. Read more.

News of a new tower at 75 Nassau Street was first reported in fall 2014. Now, full renderings have been revealed for the project. Totaling 40 floors and 151 meters, the tower will add height to the booming Financial District. Read more.

Rolfe Judd has won planning for a new mixed-use scheme at Millharbour in the Docklands. The scheme, which has been approved by the local council, includes 901 homes across seven towers ranging in height from eight to 42 stories. Read more.

A Toronto developer is hoping to make its first foray into the Calgary residential real estate market with a proposed two-tower development in East Village. A development permit application has been submitted to the city. Read more.

The recent earthquake in Nepal has brought earthquake safety norms into focus in India, where high-rises above 20 and 30 floors are quickly becoming the norm. Most buildings in India today use the minimum structural safety standards. Read more.

A new 53-story residential tower is coming to Dubai. The Stella Maris Residential Tower will be based at the southern end of Dubai Marina. Construction is set to begin in 2015 and will take 30 months to complete. Read more.

One of the leading Japanese manufacturers of shock absorbers designed to enable large structures to withstand earthquakes has admitted that 145 buildings have been fitted with substandard equipment. Read more.

A new 41-story skyscraper will feature six gaps in the façade—each filled with a full-floor, canopied green space that will wrap around the core of the tower. Floor plates will be one-third the size of those in 432 Park Avenue. Read more.

A proposed 40-story tower will replace a 1975 office block at 150 Leadenhall Street, which was refused historic listing earlier in 2015. The plans are expected to be submitted to the Corporation of London imminently. Read more.

A Mumbai-based real estate developer has launched sales of a new 55-story, 78-apartment luxury residential project called Ahuja Towers in the Worli district of Mumbai, with some units starting as high as $1.4 million. Read more.

Last August, city voters gave a developer permission to lease land on the city's downtown waterfront to build a 304-meter tourist tower with the stipulation that no public money would be spent on the $430 million project. Read more.

One of Australia’s leading non-core real estate fund managers, EG, plans to partner up with Chinese developer Forte, which is part of the Fosun Group, on a new high-rise residential project. Read more.

City council will not approve plans to add two commercial and residential high-rise towers until Park Royal delivers on commitments on a traffic reduction plan and a decrease in building height. Read more.

An origami-esque office tower proposed for a long-vacant parcel in Chicago’s Loop is projected to be 53 stories tall and include a fifth-floor skygarden, a New York developer told neighbors April 20. Read more.

A UK architect has defended controversial plans for a trio of residential towers of up to 28 stories in height in Reading, which he hopes will revive a tradition of classically designed skyscrapers. Read more.

Renderings of the tallest of Manhattan’s supertall towers have been revealed. The under-construction building has been dubbed “Nordstrom Tower” for the department store that will occupy its base. Read more.

A developer unveiled its Horizon Towers project during an event in Abu Dhabi. The two-tower project forms part of the City of Lights development on Reem Island, a new business district in a growing area of the UAE capital. Read more.

Plans to turn part of Shenzhen's Qianhai special economic zone (SEZ) into the Pearl River Delta's version of Manhattan are being overshadowed by a battle between urban planners and aviation authorities over building heights. Read more.

A team of Dutch companies has unveiled a proposal for a huge circular wind turbine that doubles as an apartment block and hotel, and also includes a Ferris wheel. It is intended as a landmark attraction for Rotterdam. Read more.

First revealed in 2006 and originally planned to complete in 2011, the 79-story tower is the only project on the World Trade Center master plan which has yet to begin construction in earnest, now that could change. Read more.

As Berlin’s property values continue to soar — rising faster than any German city over the past five years — developers are targeting the long-neglected Alexanderplatz transport hub for some new high-end housing. Read more.

Construction is due to commence later in 2015 on Antalya Tower, the winning entry of “The Expo 2016 Antalya Tower” competition. The completion of the observation tower will coincide with the “World Botanic Expo 2016,” to be held in Antalya. Read more.

Plans for Miami River Towers have been submitted to the City of Miami Planning Department by the developer. The plans call for twin 60-story towers connected at the top, which are expected to top off at a height of 238 meters. Read more.

Two new buildings will be coming to London's Canary Wharf. Tower Hamlets approved plans for a 29-story tower at 1 Park Place, and a 27-story tower at 1 Bank Street. Work on 1 Bank Street is set to begin later in 2015. Read more.